James Hambro & Partners hires portfolio manager from Brooks Macdonald
Senior investment director Robert Seifert leaves Brooks Macdonald after 10 years
Brooks Macdonald senior investment director Robert Seifert is leaving the firm after 10 years to become a portfolio manager at James Hambro & Partners (JH&P).
Seifert will be supporting the professional adviser community in his new role at the London-based wealth manager.
Before joining Brooks Macdonald, he was a private client investment manager at Cheviot and headed up the firm’s wealth management proposition to sportsmen.
It comes after JH&P appointed Aberdeen Standard Capital’s Ed Binks for its Leeds office in March at the same time as hiring Helen Rynhoud as head of marketing from C Hoare & Co.
James Hambro & Partners poaches fourth hire from Aberdeen Standard Capital
Ed Binks will join the wealth manager’s first regional outlet in Leeds
James Hambro & Partners has poached an investment manager from Aberdeen Standard Capital to boost its Leeds team, as well as appointing a head of marketing and UK business development.
Ed Binks (pictured) will join former Aberdeen Standard Capital colleagues, Aidan Butler and Ed Marsden, at the wealth manager’s recently-opened Leeds office.
Butler, who is also an investment manager in the team, said Binks brings “a lot of experience and expertise” in trusts, pensions and charities.
“It’s been a year since we opened the Leeds office for JH&P – its first regional office,” Butler said. “We’re attracting clients from the North and Midlands and it’s a sign of the appeal of the JH&P offering that business is growing strongly despite the constraints of Covid, which has hampered the usual opportunities for meeting new cl